We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Primera based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions had a similar user rating in terms of ease of deployment. HPE Primera had a better user rating regarding pricing and service and support. In terms of features, HPE Nimble Storage users felt there were stability and scalability issues, while HPE Primera users felt the reporting console needed improvements and the user interface wasn’t user-friendly.
"This solution is very scalable."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"We like the performance."
"We use a platform as a service and have multiple application vendors who comprise that platform. There are moments when those application vendors put the blame on us. By working in InfoSight, I am able to say, "No, it is not us." I can actually provide proof, either by using screenshots or through reporting."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"The performance is very good."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."
"HPE Primera provides me with system reliability and 100% data reliability. The storage is good and is consistently reliable and scalable, allowing me to use it whenever needed. The overall performance is great. The product is stable. The customer service and support is excellent. It's a commendable solution, especially suitable for online transactions. It is reliable in meeting data requirements."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"They could improve the price."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"Only HPE can manage the product."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 15 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 19 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "A tool that offers protection against ransomware and other enterprise-level attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A tool that offers quality, stability, scalability, and features that are good for storage purposes". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Dell Unity XT. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. HPE Primera report.
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